To: Board of County Commissioners
Through: Patrick Hernandez, Director, Human Resources Department; Todd Weaver, Director, Finance Department
Prepared By:
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Michelle Halstead, Acting Director, Facilities & Fleet Management Department
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Presenter: Michelle Halstead, Acting Director, Facilities & Fleet Management Department
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Subject:
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1:15 PM *Facility Space Requests and Funding for Human Resources and Finance Department Office Configurations
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Purpose and Request:
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The Board is asked to consider facility space requests and funding for the Human Resources and Finance departments to support additional FTEs as approved in the 2026 budget.
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Alignment with Strategic Plan: Good Governance - Deliver mandated and essential services with excellence.
Background and Discussion: The 2026 adopted budget approved an additional four Full-Time Employees (FTE) for the Finance and Human Resources departments. Since 2023, both departments have grown by a net three positions each and both identified the need to add or reconfigure space within the administration building to accommodate these increases, although the scope of work and associated cost was undefined at the time.
Over the past four months, the Facilities and Fleet Management (FFM) team worked with each department to understand their business needs and corresponding space, designing improvements consistent with established facility design standards. While most of the proposed reconfigurations can occur within the existing footprint assigned to the respective department, FFM is seeking Board approval to capture three, historically underutilized areas and assign these spaces to Human Resources and Finance, including:
* Converting a conference room within the Information Technology department for shared Human Resources office space.
* Converting the Longs Peak conference room into a shared Human Resources office space.
* Converting an attorney office s...
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